Significant Web Disruption Affects Dozens Online Platforms and Applications

A widespread internet disruption has impacted many websites and apps around the world, and users experiencing issues getting online after problems at Amazon’s cloud computing service.

The affected services include the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, along with a host of Amazon-operated services like its main retail site and the Ring security doorbell company.

Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was impacted along with its affiliates the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, with additional accounts of difficulties reaching the HMRC online portal on that morning. Also in the UK, multiple Ring customers took to networks to state their security devices were malfunctioning.

Solely in the United Kingdom, notifications of issues on particular apps reached the thousands for each platform.

The company stated that the outage began in the eastern region of the United States at the cloud division, a section that supplies vital internet backbone for many firms, who rent out resources on Amazon servers. Amazon Web Services is the world’s largest online services platform.

Soon after midnight (PDT) in the US (8 in the morning BST), Amazon confirmed “higher failure rates and slowdowns” for AWS services in a zone on the east coast of the US. The cascading impact appeared to hit apps worldwide, and the problem monitoring service reporting problems with the same sites in different parts of the world.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a service that monitors internet outages, also reported a rise in issues on the start of the week, with many of them located in the Virginia area, the region of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where the company stated the outage started.